TikTok admits some Chinese employees may have access to US user data

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Two years ago, Donald Trump, the then president of the United States, wanted to ban TikTok on the other side of the pond because of the alleged danger that the Chinese network posed to the privacy of American citizens. His attempt was unsuccessful, but the truth is that the short video app is once again in the eye of the storm overseas.

The subsidiary of Chinese company ByteDance lithuania phone number data has acknowledged that some of its employees have access to the data of users in this country outside the United States , thus giving even more fuel to the furious criticism directed at TikTok by some American legislators.

TikTok's admission came in a letter sent by the social network to nine US senators who accused the app of monitoring the data of American citizens and requested a response from the ByteDance subsidiary.

According to the letter sent by TikTok to nine US senators (seen by Bloomberg ), some of the company's China-based employees in charge of the app's internal security protocols may indeed have access to certain information (including public videos and comments) of the app's US users. This is stated in the letter, dated June 30, 2022, by Shou Zi Chew, CEO of TikTok.